So. The Government has published the HS2 Bill for phase 1 of the new North - South Railway.
According to the National Farmers Union...
The record-breaking 55,000-page Bill details exactly what ministers want
to build and what the expected impact on the environment might be.
Fifty five thousand pages?
Compare and contrast!
Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum, here is Churchill's 1942 memo on the construction of another project with national significance - the Mulberry Harbours for D-Day:
Less really is more!
UPDATE: This from Deep Stoat...
55,000 pages. Certainly not our idea.
But less than 60 protestors standing in Parliament Square, versus the 4000 people standing on trains into Euston this morning?
Now there's a number we want to bring down.
As Winston frequently said... "we must just KBO!"
UPDATE: This from Lord Derby-Bypass...
Deep Stoat makes the case for HS2 based on the '4000 people standing on trains into Euston'.
And quite right too.
But isn't it supposed to 'balance the economy' by creating jobs in the Midlands and North?
Rather than help get even more workers into 'The Smoke'?
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